Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
BILLIE HOLIDAYGod bless the child that’s got his own.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.
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The only reason they’re out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
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I joined Count Basie’s band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn’t see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.
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Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you – and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
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You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.
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I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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I don’t think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.
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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.
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I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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Singing songs like ‘The Man I Love’ or ‘Porgy’ is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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Don’t be in such a hurry.
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Them that’s got shall get, Them that’s not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that’s got his own.
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If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music.
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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.
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They think they can make fuel from horse manure – now, I don’t know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it’s sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
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I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
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